Don't Get STUMPED Lockwood, Victoria, Australia
By hardyman on 03-Feb-07. Waypoint GC10Q98

We didn't realize that this cache had been archived until we came to log it, both containers were fine, there was nothing even damp at gz

We pulled up near wpt1, as we approached it a dog started barking from the nearby establishment. We had a quick look around as the dog continued to bark and then the owners voice was heard yelling at the dog to shut up. This was our clue to leave and we decided to head back to the car and forget this one. As we were Diane noticed a likely location and had a quick look and there it was with the Garmin still showing 14 metres.
We punched in the new co-ords and headed off for a nice easy find at gz
TNLNSL
Thanks Hardyman for the cache, it's good to see that this area wasn't affected by the fires of a few weeks ago

Spot too damp now

15:45
A pleasent walk in the bush and the waypoint was found by Mrs P. Satellites had the waypoint GZ 10m to the east today!

Another short walk and a very damp cache was located - GZ was spot on today.

We emptied about 50ml of water out of cache and dried contents. Reference log entry for 5th November regarding recovery of TB. There was no TB in the cache (or log entry to indicate its removal), so we can only assume the TB was removed by the cache owner.

Cache was replaced with lid opening face down in an attempt to reduce water intake.

TNLN .. SL TFTH hardyman

Have dried cache out and added some new swaps.

If this cache is getting waterlogged and the TB's are being ruined, will the next person please pull my TB out (Meet the Dog Tag Keychain) and move it to a safer location. Thank you.

We found our 1st Hardyman cache at 11:55am as the 8th of 26 on Day 2 of our "Where'd Bendy Go?" long weekend. We took this opportunity to head out west of town to pick up the 3 caches out this way of which this was the 1st. A nice spot and an easy pick up at both WPs. The cache is in need of maintenance though as the cache was waterlogged, which is ruining the contents including some TBs. We dried out as best as we could for now but it has already rained again since our visit. Thanks for the cache from D, H & A B-A.

Had a bit of trouble with WP1, it seemed to be a few metres away from GZ, but found finally. No problems with finding final WP, but container was full of water, we attemped to dry it out as much as possible but it might need some attention, amazingly the log book remains dry. Once again we have been to another part of Bendigo we have never seen. TNLN. Signed log. Thanks for the cache.

Found quickly, parked near published coords found 1st cache then walked to 2nd cache. Dropped off Meet the Dog Tag Keychain TB

Found at 3:55pm by Narnie.
Found by Jnr Geo - very excited to find it without much help.
TNLN
Thanks

A nice little drive through the bush very enjoyable no hoons here today very quite found the cache and signed log no swaps were made Thankyou

Tenth of Sixteen for the day with Highrod, Oenze and geoJess(woof) on our Morwell Caching Weekend.
TNLN TFTC
-sandar10

Found at 3.35pm GAFF1. 31st cache of our H & A Bendigo Weekend. Enjoyed the drive through the tracks and the area was so still and quite. We were surprised to have found WPT1 as it was 8m out for us today. Thanks hardyman – didn’t find the other kind!

Found at 5:10pm with the sun setting. I have been out here many times before using a variety of transport (foot, car & bike). The area near the cache itself used to be a popular place for dumping wrecked cars!

Took a bendy pencil, and left a koala. Thanks hardyman!

This was a joint effort with Swaggie2 making the first find and Swaggie1 making the second find. We used acts2yg set of coords which proved more successful. There must be a bit of dejavu here because we also discovered a gentleman sitting in his car close to GZ. As we drove to GZ, he left in a hurry. Anyway only found one cache and it had a log book with familiar names so we logged it @ 0930 hrs.
TNLN
Thanks hardyman.

Found @ 3:34:38 PM
Nice stroll over from the first waypoint. Yes WP 1 may be a little out but it just added to the fun.
T: N
L: Screwdriver
SL
TFTC

Staying over for a day after the Get Together, this was the first of a new day. I found wp1 ok, closer to acts2's coordinates, but not that far from either. I then got confused from the description as to whether this was it or not! I finally decided that it was, (never found anything else anyway) and it was off to gz for an easy find. Thanks hardyman for the cache.

A good cache if you like a bit of off road driving. We found our selves at a B&B while trying to get to GZ but we soon realised w had made a wrong turn. TFTC, loved it.

Took frog clicker left small black ball.

Found with cenon on a great day for cacheing. Didn't know where we were going to end up with this one but still managed to find it no worries.
TNLN

Ninth of twenty-two finds in company with acts2youthgroup in our latest 'clean up Bendigo' day. It took a little while to find the micro. As others have said, the coordinates were a fair bit out, so we took a couple of readings and averaged them; Acts2YG has attached them to his log. (I wish more people would do that instead of just complaining that the coords are out!) Anyhow, there was a station wagon parked within about 60m of GZ. The car looked empty, but as we drove past a bloke's head popped up from the back of the wagon to have a look at us. Strange! We managed to find and log the cache surreptitiously at 1420. We had a bit of a look around for the alternative cache, but couldn't find it. Maybe the bloke in the car had it. [?] When we drove out there was no sign of life in the station wagon. The mind boggles! [xx(] I made no exchange. Thanks to hardyman for the cache. Cheers, dak.

Ninth of twenty-two cache finds in company with dak’s Emu Mob on our usual Wednesday assault; this week we chose Bendigo. The cache was found at 14:20.
This was a nice drive in the forest to the listed coordinates, the description was rather lacking and we were not sure what we were looking for, a quick call to Maccamob and then we began our search for the first container, we eventually found it 10m from the listed coordinates; I have taken a reading and attached it to my log. We were soon at GZ and Dak came up with the goods there was a Muggle in his car close to GZ but we were able to retrieve the cache with out being seen. We saw no other stash. Thanks hardyman for the cache.

Another find for The Rebel alliance. L.L.T.R.A

Found by Mary & David at 1000. Enjoyed the peace and quiet out here in the GeoChallenger. Actually saw some water! Took Arkansas magnet, left frog key ring. Our thanks to hardyman.

2nd find on a boys day out joined by Fozzy778 and sons,
Cheers for the excellent find. Spot on with co'ords
Although fozzy was off in fairyland metres away.
Great idea with waypoint.
Cheers
Highrod

Oenze and I had a bit of a search at WP1 registering around 10m error. However I spotted something just not quite as it should and we soon had coords for GZ which was located without trouble. Thanks hardyman

Found @ 1.40pm in the company of Highrod.
Find # 197.
Found the wpt., about 8 meters off, and was a short walk to GZ.
Highrod had accuracy on his side today, as I was about 10 meters away whilst he was at 0!!
Nice area, though a bit dry!!!
T:radio caribeener L:Hunter, screwdriver, bendi pencil and a fozzy card
Thanks Hardiman!!

6th find of the day at 10:33am. Accompanied by Feathertop on our labour day holiday.
We had a bit of trouble at wpt1 as the coords. were a little out but the cache was an easy find . TNLN, Signed Log. Thanx Hardyman....

Mr and Miss Cranium were back in Bendigo after a three month working holiday in Whistler BC so what better way to spend a sunny sunday afternoon thank go for a cache.
TNLN
TFTC
D&L

Found by Bevfre.10.00am, The location was new to us,Took Ball Left Bottle Bubbles.Thank you hardman.

A nice quick find in the company of Team Rubik. Coords at wpt had us near the fence - approx 10 metres away. Took nothing but left a top. TFTC

Found in the company of Lady Morris on a soon-to-be-sweltering day. I had the pleasure of seeing something very rare today, water in Bendigo!

A simple find after bit of a search at WPT 1, fortunately one of us had peeled their eyes.

Thanks,

R - B

Took us a while to locate part A, as the GPSr was being acurate to 10 metres and there was a lot of possibilities within that range. Managed to locate part B much quicker.
Picked up Fishing Buddy TB and will drop him off at Phillip Island on the weekend so he can enjoy some good fishing.
T: 1780 colonial figure
L: Arkansas Razorbacks magnet
TFTC

Dropped off Fishing Buddy here to prove that there is a bit of water around Bendigo.

7.00am
Found by Roma and Max.
After a warm summers night, not all that conducive to sleeping, we ventured out into the nearby forest in anticipation of the sounds of birds and smell of eucalyptus! However we were greeted at the posted co-ordinates with the sounds of barking and howling dogs, maybe 20 or 30, and was that a waft of burnt rubber in the air? We were definitely still too close to suburbia!
We were pleased to take the FTF Gift, a Small Green Whistle and left one of our usual Mondo Figurines for the cache.
Thanks hardyman, for another cache less than 4km from our Geo base.
Romax.

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